Artist description Peter Ulrich was the long-time drummer/percussionist of Dead Can Dance. He contributed a track to This Mortal Coil's second album and has worked with other 4AD artists. His debut solo album 'Pathways and Dawns' (Projekt, PRO95) exhibits the influence of DCD and features arrangements and production by Brendan Perry. Peter's solo material has also been likened to the work of Brian Eno, Jah Wobble and Syd Barrett.

Music Style ethnic / medieval / folk / pop

Artist History At the very end of 1982, Peter met Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard who had brought Dead Can Dance to London from Melbourne, Australia, minus their original drummer. He was invited to join, and six months later they signed to 4AD and began recording the first album. Between 1983 and 1995 Peter played on three DCD albums, the ‘Garden of the Arcane Delights’ EP and both BBC Radio John Peel sessions, and played on all but two DCD tours. He contributed the track ‘At First, And Then’ to This Mortal Coil’s ‘Filigree and Shadow’ album (1986), an extended version of which was regularly performed by DCD in subsequent live sets. He has also made incidental percussion contributions to 4AD albums by The Wolfgang Press, and by Pieter Nooten (of Xymox) & Michael Brook. In 1990 he recorded two tracks at John A Rivers’s Woodbine Street Studios - ‘Taqaharu’s Leaving’ and ‘Evocation’. These were released on a limited edition 12" vinyl single on his own Cornerstone label. In 1997 he recorded another six pieces with Brendan at his Quivvey Church Studio in Ireland and these, together with the earlier two were released in 1999 as his debut solo album ‘Pathways and Dawns’ on Projekt (the New York and Chicago-based label).

Group Members Peter Ulrich

Albums Pathways and Dawns (1999)

Press Reviews The album the Fab Four [Beatles] might have made had they signed with 4AD instead of Capitol - Alternative Press, October 1999 |Pathways and Dawns is an excellent debut... a rich, well-made masterwork. Losing Today, April 2000 | His first album is a remarkable piece moving on the edge between ethnic and medieval art pop music. SideLine, August 1999 | Ulrich successfully incorporates graceful folk music, powerful tribal beats and soothing synths into one enchanting full length effort. Outburn, October 1999

Location Middlesex - United Kingdom

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